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1960s documentary: Self-experimenting with magic mushrooms
Originally Posted on: July 17, 2008 10:11 AM, by Mo
In the January 4th, 1961 episode of One Step Beyond, director and presenter John Newland ingests psilocybin under laboratory conditions, to investigate whether or not the hallucinogenic mushroom can enhance his abilities of extra-sensory perception.
The programme was apparently inspired by [...]
WIT! william irwin thompson’s journal!
On Religion and the State 4/26/2008
For as long as it takes a Tyrannosaurus Rex to devolve into a chicken, just so long will we have to wait for religion to scale down into a harmless nourishment for the soul. Then again, considering cock fights in Latin America, maybe the chicken isn’t [...]
new interview
May 02, 2008 - Craig Barnes(51 minutes - 23.7mb)Craig Barnes is an author, essayist, playwright and international mediator.
His books include In Search Of The Lost Feminine, Decoding the Myths that Radically Reshaped Civilization, an analysis of the roles of women as they appear in archeology and myth before the patriarchy.
http://www.futureprimitive.org/GAIAlogues.html
See Ivan Illich’s Shadow [...]
okIt was massive. It was beautifully organized. The shift to a psychedelically informed culture is well underway. 1900-plus people, from 37 countries attended the four day event, according to Dieter Hagenbach, of gaiamedia, organizers of the event. A big bookstore. A room dedicated to video presentations—art and documentary.http://mazerunner.wordpress.com/
Alien Downloads
Altered states of consciousness are portals to multiple [...]
Portrait by Alex Grey
High Quality (64MB) mp3 46 minutes.
Download “Transmitter/Receiver” Albert Hofmann at the UCSB Psychedelics Conference ll, 1983.
Prints of this portrait are available (sale benefits MAPS) here.
More about Artist Brummbaer
from MAPS.ORG site
Brummbaer recently completed his second book, What’s So Wrong With Love and Peace: 1965-67. To find out more about Brummbaer’s work visit his Web site: www.brummbaer.net
And now, here comes Brummbaer to show us how to use the screen [...]
2007 Women’s Visionary Congress Audio Recordings
The Women’s Visionary Congress is a gathering of healers, activists, researchers and artists who are redefining the use of entheogens in contemporary society. This Congress will address the traditional uses of these substances and investigations into their therapeutic applications. Read more…
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Annie Sprinkle
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Kat Harrison
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How does Erik think this stuff UP^! too much and very nice. R eally gettin’ a Clue!
The Perp! above ^
eDavis:
So when Burners invoked specifically legalistic categories like “arson” and “reckless endangerment”—and I did it too at times—they were not just rationally debating Addis’ fate. They were actively deflating the productive legal ambiguity of Black [...]
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Joseph Nechvatal
Mid-September 2007, Marrakech
http://www.nechvatal.net
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http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2007/09/28/review-of-digital-contagions/trackback/
Though no J. G. Ballard or William S. Burroughs, Jussi Parikka nevertheless sucks us into a fantastic black tour-de-force narrative of virulence and the cultural history of computer viruses (*), followed by innumerable inquisitive innuendoes
We may wish to recall here that for Deleuze and Guattari, media ecologies are machinic operations (the term [...]
Live video cam from burnin’ womans
http://qtss.telascience.org/live.sdp
burning man site and info
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/08/video-current-t.html
current.tv coverage of burning man
http://www.current.tv/network/video?id=39821750
More current TV 2007 vids day by day
http://www.current.tv/burningman/
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Erowid Conference Report: Mind States Costa Rica by Lux, Erowid Staff Writer
v1 - Jul 18, 2007
sample from Jon Ott-
“The End of the Treasure in the Basement”, by Jonathan Ott
Jonathan described himself as “not a prophet”, but someone who has been interested in the question of energy and the petroleum-based political and economic infrastructure of the [...]
Here are six animated clips of short Alan Watts excerpts from the people at FreshMinds. If you’re new to Alan Watts, chances are you’ll be instantly smitten and wonder how it could be you’ve never heard of him. If you’re an old fan of Alan’s, then I’m sure you’ll find these short animations to be [...]
Interview by Laura Sheahen
Your book discusses the problems with the Abrahamic faiths, but then says Eastern religion is not the answer. It seemed like your main criticism of Eastern religion wasn’t so much about its tenets so much as one sex abuse scandal at one ashram.
Oh, no. My objection was to the sign [at the [...]
This book is pretty amazing…the transition from Torture on the Cross to Yab-Yum Yummy yum yum maithuna tantric copulation. quite an extreme cultural reversal!
sample chapter here from publishers site
“Darwin, Tantric sex, cold war physics, psychedelic drugs, golf, and, of course, religion all come into play in a book that can only be described as [...]
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